Attention Links
People | Projects | Labs | Conferences | Models | Services | Others

PEOPLE

P. Sven Arvidson - Seattle University (Psychology)

Brian P. Bailey - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (HCI)

Kyle R. Cave - University of Massachusetts Department of Psychology (visual cognition)

Andrew Conway - Princeton University department of psychology (Working memory and executive attention)

Mary Czerwinski - Principal Researcher and manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group. Microsoft Research (HCI)

Thomas Davenport - Independent thinker, writer (Management)

Jon Driver - University College London (Cognitive neuroscience)

Randall W. Engle - Georgia Tech School of Psychology (Attention and Working Memory)

Stephen Grossberg - Boston University (Cognitive and neural systems)

Anne Hillstrom - University of Portsmouth

Eric Horvitz - Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager; Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group; Microsoft Research (HCI)

David LaBerge - UC Irvine (Attention, mathematical models of response time, brain imaging)

Nilli Lavie - University College London (Behavioural and cognitive neuroscience)

Steven J. Luck - University of Iowa (Neuroscience | visual attention)

D. Scott McCrickard - Virginia Tech. (HCI | notification)

Matei Mancas - TCTS lab - computational attention

Brian McElree - New York University (Psychology | visual attention)

Stephen Monsell - Cognitive Psychology University of Exeter (control of mental processes "executive function", "attentional control")

Jehad Najjar - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (CS | Attention Metadata)

Raja Parasuraman - George Mason University; Arch Lab (HCI and Cognitive neuroscience)

Hal Pashler - University of California, San Diego (Psychology | Visual Attention, Multitasking, Visual Awareness)

Luiz Pessoa - Brown University - Laboratory of cognition and emotion (Behavioural and cognitive neuroscience)

Zenon Pylyshyn - Rutgers University; Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science (Visual Attention, Mental Imagery)

Michael Posner - University of Oregon, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences (Neuroscience)

Ronald A. Rensink - University of British Columbia (Vision, HCI)

Daniel J. Simons - Head of Visual Cognition Lab, University of Illinois (Inattentional blindness)

Linda Stone - Independent thinker (HCI, Sociology)

Jan Theeuwes - Vrije Universiteit (Cognitive Psychology, visual attention)

Anne Treisman - Princeton University (Psychology | visual attention)

Roel Vertegaal - Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario - director of the Human Media Laboratory (HCI - Attentive User Interfaces)

Jeremy Wolfe - Visual Attention Lab Harvard (Neuropsychology | visual attention)

Martin Wolpers - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (CS | Attention Metadata)

Sharon Wood - University of Sussex (HCI)

Junji YAMATO - Media Information Laboratory NTT Communication Science Laboratories (HCI)

PROJECTS

Atgentive project (FP6 - IST-2005-027087). Investigates the use of artificial agents for supporting the management of the attention of young or adult learners in the context of individual and collaborative learning environments. See a demo of the "reasoning module".

Cost action B27. The main objective is to increase the knowledge of the electric neuronal oscillations correlated to memory and attention as the basis for neuronal regulation aimed at enhancing the human performance and health.

LABS

The ORCHID group researches computational tools that better support individual and collaborative creativity in the early stages of interactive systems design, theoretical models and methods for modeling costs of interruption, intelligent systems and interfaces that help users better manage their attention in multi-tasking environments, and user interfaces for pervasive computing environments. In particular, see projects on attentional interfaces, and publications on attention management.

The Visual Attention Lab Harvard

The Visual Cognition Lab University of Illinois offers a collection of videos of change blidness and inattentional blindness experiments.

Attention, Control and Awareness group at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Equipe - Espace, Attention, Action - Université Paris Descartes, Institut de Psychologie

Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience - UC Davis

Applied Cognition Lab - University of Utah

Conferences, workshop, etc.

Attention Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Innsbruck - Sunday September 16, Workshop at UBICOMP 2007 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: personalized access to digital resources CAMA 2007 June 23, 2007 - Part of the ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 17-23, 2007 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

International ACM Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: Collecting, Managing and Exploiting of Rich Usage Information at ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 2006

Designing for Attention workshop at HCI 2004

Models

AttentionXML How many sources of information must you keep up with?
Tired of clicking the same link from a dozen different blogs?
RSS readers collect updates, but with so many unread items, how do you know which to read first?
Attention.XML is designed to to solve these problems and enable a whole new class of blog and feed related applications.
Based on Attention.XML is the framework for Contextualised A ttention Metadata that intended to track users attention given to learning objects in different tools they may use. This framework should allow the exchange and merge of attention metadata with various applications. Attention metadata is captured through the server-side logging facilities of the various systems. The information is provided through web service interfaces (WS) on request by the client-side merger application

APML Attention Profiling Mark-up Language. APML will allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows them to export their reading lists from Feed Readers.
The idea is to boil down all forms of Attention Data – including Browser History, OPML, Attention.XML, Email etc – to a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests. NOTE: not to be confused with the Affective Presentation Markup Language.

Services

Procspace Procspace is a collaborative outliner software enhanced with data-mining and agent technology. It allows a work group to share text documents and ideas on the Web in collaboration with a series of agents that use statistical semantic analysis to create links between documents and search for similar texts on the Web. It can (among other things) be used as an ontology driven clustering engine for re-ranking Google results.

Particls (formerly Touchstone) Particls helps you track your favorite sites and apps by displaying desktop alerts for important changes.[...] Particls even works out how important the new information is to you and displays a proportional alert.
For example, general information can be displayed on a news ticker, important stuff might appear on a popup alert and urgent information could be SMS'd to your phone.

AttentionScape a graphical tool for measuring several dimensions of attention. It was first presented in the book The Attention Economy by Thomas Davenport and John Beck.

OTHERS

Attention Trust a non profit organization dedicated to promote the basic rights of attention owners.

Special issue of Computers in Human Behavior on "Attention Aware Systems" edited by C. Roda and J. Thomas (Call for papers Closed December 15 2004)

Wikipedia page on the attention economy

Interruptions in HCI - A vast and up to date collection of resources on the subject of interruptions.

Visual Cognition lab 's videos - A collection of videos demonstrating change blindness and inattentional blindness.

International Community for Auditory Displays - ICAD is a forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems.

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